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04 Mar 2015 7:00:19am

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Hi Mike - well, it is also about cost if like mathematicians (and, say, humanities) you have relatively low costs for doing research and are funded proportionally. Costs of journals don't scale as

(cost of mathematics research):(cost of biological research)

otherwise I could buy annual subscriptions out of my own pocket if the library didn't deign to buy them for me. Purchasing access to individual papers isn't any cheaper for fields with less expensive research.

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